To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.